Disliked{quote} 1. I don't see how your simple solutions can be applied: "close the losing account and then automagically the trader will be eligible for the payout". You can't close an account unless you bust it, violate rules or request them. 2. Even if you do that, the rule is so generic that they can bend it as they wish. Example: You have 2 x 100K accounts. You bust account 1: -10K and it's closed (but this was "trading activities") You make a profit in account: +2K (this is also "trading activities") Now they can say: "Traders are entitled to 80%...Ignored
Yes, they could bend the rules as they wish and it is unethical what they are doing but literally every prop firm does make up new rules as they go. Hence my qualification "the wild wild West of prop forex trading".
Bottom line, if I'd have an account with more than 19k in the red and that's the one holding up my payout, I'd just put on a hail mary trade: either it gets back to green or gets busted and the other account pays out.
Again, I acknowledge that they could bend the rules even further to deny eventually all payouts but they haven't gone so far: as stated and confirmed they have paid reliably several times for months. To me that means that they are trying to reduce their exposure to "unlimited" number of accounts and not that they just refuse to pay anyone.
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